乌克兰用无人机从前线救回受伤士兵，将战场伤员后送构想付诸实践
Ukraine’s drone rescue of wounded soldier puts much touted idea into practice
乌克兰军方10月19日发布视频，显示一架六旋翼重型无人机用吊带将一名受伤士兵从前线吊运至安全地带，完成一次无人机伤员后送。该行动发生在俄军无人机与地雷使轮式地面机器人难以进入的前线区域，具体时间和地点未公开。就在数日前，乌克兰专用于伤员后送的无人机刚投入前线测试，此举已超出美军数十年来对类似概念的试验阶段。
Ukraine’s unprecedented drone rescue of a wounded soldier from the battlefield has shown once again how battlefield necessity can spur innovation. The operation was revealed just days after separate Ukrainian drones designed for casualty evacuation were deployed for frontline testing—taking a step beyond the US military’s decades of experimentation with similar concepts.
The drone evacuation of the injured soldier took place at an undisclosed time and place on the frontline where the presence of Russian drones and landmines made it impractical to send in a wheeled ground robot, according to The Kyiv Independent. On October 19, Ukraine’s Army shared a video of the drone evacuation, showing the wounded soldier securing himself in a harness suspended beneath a heavy hexacopter drone with six rotors before being flown to safety.
“This is a historic event, the next stage of evacuating the wounded, which we will all come to,” said Napalm, a programmer of the 92nd separate assault brigade's unmanned ground systems company, who went by his callsign per Ukrainian military practice, in a statement. “Now the serious systematic work begins, so that such missions are carried out constantly.”
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